The governor does not consider the 44-year-old activist a serious candidate, said Ken Klein, Graham`s campaign spokesman.

``His name is on the ballot. That`s all,`` Klein said.

Kunst is not used to being overlooked. It hasn`t happened to him since he was a little boy, before his first teen-age civil rights protests 30 years ago in the then tightly segregated Miami.

Kunst, son of a tailor, is a native Dade County resident. In the 1950s, when other teen-agers were practicing football, he was demonstrating against Jim Crow segregation by sitting in with blacks at downtown Miami lunch counters.

Then he put his social conscience aside. ``I became a Yuppie before anybody knew about Yuppies,`` Kunst said.

He moved to New York City and became, in succession, an underwriter on Wall Street, the manager of men`s clothes at an Alexander`s department store, a financial officer for United Artists and, eventually, an encyclopedia salesman.

``I was so good at selling encyclopedias I was given responsibility for Queens and Brooklyn, with 23 women working for me,`` he said. ``I was making a fortune.

``But I was frustrated. I was frustrated with the Vietnam War. I moved back to Miami and became an activist again,`` Kunst said.

Kunst was in Eugene McCarthy`s 1968 presidential campaign. He then became Florida coordinator for baby doctor Benjamin Spock`s New Party.

In 1972, Kunst was a liaison between police and protesters at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. He received his first national publicity.

While dabbling in the human potential movement -- ``exploring the nature of bisexuality`` in his own group touching sessions -- Kunst got a real job again, he recalled.

He worked as a promoter for the Miami Toros soccer team in the mid-1970s, but said he got fired after owner Joe Robbie found out Kunst was a homosexual.

Robbie did not return phone calls for comment last week.

``I was fired on the spot. Robbie turned me into an activist on a new level,`` Kunst said.

Kunst, working with other South Florida homosexuals, quietly got the Metro- Dade Commission in 1977 to pass an ordinance that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual preference.

Fundamentalists demanded the law be repealed. The fiery local battle propelled Kunst into international headlines, chiefly because of the fame of his leading born-again Christian opponent, singer Anita Bryant.

``We turned the Dade County issue into a world event,`` Kunst said.

Voters refused to repeal the law, and Kunst claimed victory. After the battle with Bryant, he continued to defy tradition.

His protests became more outrageous as he challenged standards of sexual behavior with his Oral Majority organization.

Kunst denies the most common charge made about him, that he is a publicity hound.

``I don`t do anything that is not legitimate news. I get a great deal of worldwide press,`` he said.

He ran against Graham for governor in 1982 and got more than 61,000 votes. He was annoyed with Graham`s support for the herbicide paraquat to kill marijuana, saying it could kill drug users.

This time he is campaigning against what he perceives to be Graham`s foot- dragging in fighting AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

``This will become the issue of the decade. We are talking about thousands, millions dying.``